Having great fun with the Tekes project. Its really interesting for me to be having conversations with people from all arts&parts who are thinking about how Bioinformatics and skills underpinning Bioinformatics can be used in other industry areas. I'm learning about Clean Fuel development from Synthetic Biology, Food Ingredient identification and Protected Designation of Origin, Image Processing techniques and their application to 24hr monitoring of things as diverse as plant growth and airport passport control....and everyone's bug-bear is the same - make data conversion easier....that old chestnut.

SSC's work with Young Entrepreneurs continues. Strathclyde University, Knowledge Exchange Hub, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences students are mentored by SSC to produce Marketing reports on real commercialisation opportunities for Strathclyde's technology rather than a traditional Final Year project.

Business meetings in Vienna can be recommended when mixed with some relaxation time as well. SSC have been strengthening ties with their contacts in the Graphic Design world and discussing the next generation SSC website.

SSC are delighted to have been invited to the Enterprise Academy dinner at Crowne Plaza hotel in Glasgow on Oct 19th 2011 by Research & Knowledge Exchange Services, Strathclyde Uni.

Work has started on further developing the services that SSC offers. We have now more associates and can offer a more tailored and integrated set of mentoring skills from understanding marketing and how to create a strategy, sales and business development training, operational and management strategy development and technology transfer and handling out-sourced contracts. These will be available as part of a long-term partnership (2 years generally) where our staff become embedded in your organisation, or as discreet courses.